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NetApp, Oracle End ZFS Litigation

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“The three-year legal battle between NetApp and Oracle has come
to an end as the companies quietly dropped their dueling patent
infringement lawsuits over the open source Zettabyte File System
(ZFS).

“Announced this morning via NetApp’s (NASDAQ: NTAP) website, the
companies have agreed to dismiss their pending patent litigation,
which began when NetApp sued Sun Microsystems in September of 2007
and became Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) problem when it acquired Sun
last year.

“NetApp and Oracle are tight-lipped about the matter only
stating that they both “seek to have the lawsuits dismissed without
prejudice” and that the terms of the agreement are
confidential.”


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